Despite the recent doubling of the incidence of gout among women and its substantial prevalence particularly in the aging female population, the risk factors for gout among women remain unknown.
We undertook this study to evaluate purported risk factors for incident gout among women and to compare them with those among men.
Multivariate relative risks conferred by increasing age (per 5 years), obesity (body mass index  30 kg/m2), alcohol intake (7 ounces of pure alcohol/week), hypertension, and diuretic use were 1.24, 2.74, 3.10, 1.82, and 2.39, respectively. |
| These prospective data with long-term followup provide evidence that higher levels of serum uric acid increase the risk of gout in a graded manner among women, but the rate of increase is lower than that among men. Increasing age, obesity, alcohol consumption, hypertension, and diuretic use were associated with the risk of incident gout among women. Read Full Abstract Request Reprint E-Mail: hchoius@bu.edu ____________________________________________ |
